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As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Always Attain Drummer Fighting Level Never Quite You

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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Being Editing Editing Room Love Playing Rhythm Room Shots Tempo I Love

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If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Also Around Bigger Feeling Head High Hold Like Lot More Responsibilities Stress Team Walk You Your

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Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Enjoy Guaranteed Happens Just Last Nothing Should You

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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Amount Art Buddy Drummer Heavy Heavy Metal Jazz Just Like Look Looking Mean Metal Music People Playing Rich Same Say Them You

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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Always Being Blind Decent Doing Fast Good Good Ideas Had Ideas Impressive Like Musically Painter Pretty Really Seems Sense Stick Stuff Tasteful Tempo Terrible Which Work

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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Been Before Dreams Feeling Greatest Greatest Thing More Now Pipe Projects Realistic Thing Were

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I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Actual Art Clear Function Give Guess Hearts History Insane Itself Lives People Rarely Souls

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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Actually Always Cuts Look Lot Motivated Musically Numbers Pretty Side Story Those West West Side You

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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who - I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.

~Damien Chazelle

Topics: Before Came Drums Even Hobby Jazz Jersey Just Kid Little Little Kid Living Make Me Movies Much Music New New Jersey Playing Really Since Started Wanted Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 19th, 1985

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